NIGERIAN HOUSEHOLDS: FACTS YOU MAY NOT KNOW.

The third wave of the Household survey conducted by the Nigerian Bureau of Statistics( NBS) in collaboration with World Bank Living Standards Study Team between 2015 and 2016 came up some shocks.

For example, according to the survey findings, about 89% of Nigerians above 10years of age have mobile phones.

However, most of them do not access the internet. From the survey, only 29% of urban mobile phone owners access the internet while it is only 9.8% in rural areas.

About 45.8% of the phone owners send and receive messages on their phone and only about 18.4% use it for educational purposes.

Another revelation was that 68.5% of households own their own dwellings while 16.6% live in rented places.

This may not be too shocking since most rural dwellers live in own houses although built with substandard materials in many cases.

According to the survey, 59.3% of Nigerian households have access to electricity on the average of 35.8hrs per week representing no change on the findings of 2012/2013 similar survey.

However, there is a wide gap between access to electricity in urban and rural areas. On the average about 86% of urban households have this weekly access but only 41.1% did in the rural areas.

Also 94% of the households own mattresses; 82% own beds and 76% own mats.

In terms of health care, the survey found that more seek help from chemists and traditional practitioners than head for an hospital.

For example, only 27.9% of men and 28.3% who were ill  within 4 weeks to the survey went to hospital. On the other hand, 33.2% men and 35.5% women went to chemists. Others presumably resorted to self help or consulted traditional practitioners.

However, related to health and nutrition, the survey found that 39.4% of boys and 35.4% girls were stunted. And more than 50% of households live less than 30 minutes to the nearest hospital.

The main economic activity especially amongst rural households was farming and the major non-farming activities were retail trade (engaged in by 89%) and provision of personal services (10.2%).

Also, 46% of the households fund their business start ups from savings while 29.1% reach out to friends and relative as well.

The survey was conducted in 5000 households across the six geopolitical zones of the country with separate enumeration visits  during planting season and during harvest.

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